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All the Folks on Rocky Top Get Their Corn from a Jar

In contemporary country songs, whiskey partners with other themes—agrarian, patriotic, rural—to solidify the…

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Atlanta’s Masa Maven

Born in 1976 in Pharr, Texas, Gladys Martinez grew up with great respect for corn and the savvy that made it possible…

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The Landscape of my Ancestors

"Anytime you look into my work and you see a simple A-frame house with a porch on it, that’s my grandmother’s house. "

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Jean-Paul Bourgeois’ Cornbread Madeleines

"As soon as I tasted Frank’s cornbread madeleines, I knew one day I was going to put them on my menu."

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Cassidee Dabney’s Crispy Cornmeal Mush

When I told my dad I'd discovered polenta, he said, “Oh, that’s just cornmeal mush.”

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Malnourished: Cultural ignorance paved the way for pellagra

In the nineteenth-century rural South, sharecroppers grew corn, sold corn, ate corn, and became sick—all because of a…

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Corn 101

Rebecca Lauck Cleary leads us through the maze of corn-made consumables.

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Feast or Famine: Corn’s Role in America’s (Pre)History

Native Americans memorialized and celebrated the prominent role of corn in their lives through stories passed from…

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Corn: The Eternal Mexican

Corn possesses that power to tell the story of a people. Even when rendered as snacks. Especially when eaten as snacks.

Archive: Corn

All the Folks on Rocky Top Get Their Corn from a Jar

Atlanta’s Masa Maven

The Landscape of my Ancestors

Jean-Paul Bourgeois’ Cornbread Madeleines

Cassidee Dabney’s Crispy Cornmeal Mush

Malnourished: Cultural ignorance paved the way for pellagra

Corn 101

Feast or Famine: Corn’s Role in America’s (Pre)History

Corn: The Eternal Mexican

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Archive: Corn

All the Folks on Rocky Top Get Their Corn from a Jar

Atlanta’s Masa Maven

The Landscape of my Ancestors

Jean-Paul Bourgeois’ Cornbread Madeleines

Cassidee Dabney’s Crispy Cornmeal Mush

Malnourished: Cultural ignorance paved the way for pellagra

Corn 101

Feast or Famine: Corn’s Role in America’s (Pre)History

Corn: The Eternal Mexican

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